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SHAINA COELENE A. MARTIN

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WASTE

• any material „thrown away”

• regarded as useless and unwanted (at a
certain time and place)
Waste Management
It involves the collection, transport, processing, recycling or
disposal and monitoring of waste materials.
Sources of Wastes
Households
Commerce and industry

Agriculture Fisheries
PROBLEMS CAUSED BY IMPROPER
DISPOSAL OF WASTE
General Provisions for Ecological Solid Waste Management Act
of 2000

Sec. 1. Short Title-The act shall be known as the “Ecological Solid

waste Management Act of 2000
Sec. 2. Declaration of Policies-It is hereby declared the policy of
the State to adopt a systematic, comprehensive and ecological
solid waste management program which shall:
a. Ensure the protection of the public health and
environment;
b. Utilize environmentally-sound methods that maximize the
utilization of valuable resources and encourage resource
conservation and recovery;
d. Ensure the proper segregation, collection, transport, storage,
treatment and disposal of solid waste the formulation
c. set guidelines and targets for solid waste avoidance
and volume reduction through source reduction and
waste minimization measures, including composting,
recycling, re-use, recovery, green charcoal process,
and others, before collection, treatment and disposal
in appropriate and environmentally sound solid waste
management facilities in accordance with ecologically
sustainable development principles;
d. Ensure the proper segregation, collection,
transport, storage, treatment and disposal of solid
waste through the formulation and adoption of the
best environmental practice in ecological waste
management excluding incineration;
e. Promote national research and development programs
for improved solid waste management and resource
conservation techniques, more effective institutional
arrangement and indigenous and improved methods of
waste reduction,
; collection, separation and recovery;
f. Encourage greater private sector participation in solid
waste management;
g. Retain primary enforcement and responsibility of solid
waste management with local government units while
establishing a cooperative effort among the national
government, other local government units, non-
governmental organizations, and the private sector;
h. Encourage cooperation and self-regulation among
waste generators through the application of market-
based instruments;
i. Institutionalized public participation in the
development and implementation of national and
local integrated, comprehensive, and ecological
waste management programs; and
j. Strength the integration of ecological solid waste
management and resource conservation and recovery
topics into the academic curricula of formal and non-
formal education in order to promote environmental
awareness and action among the citizenry.
Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of
2000 or Republic Act 9003 was created for:

*an ecological solid waste management program

*creation of the necessary institutional mechanisms
and
incentives
*declaration of certain acts prohibited
*provision of penalties for violations
*appropriation of funds
We can help in the implementation of the Solid
Waste Management Act by putting:
*ecological nook- a place where the community
members can segregate their waste